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reforestation

reforestation

3 3.8
Planting trees to bring back a forest after people cut or burn it
  • noun
  • /ˌriːfɔːrɪˈsteɪʃən/
translation icon : reforestación
  • Ventures could involve reforestation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy.
  • reforestation program
  • reforestation efforts
  • reforestation project

And we still have the drive going for Ena Reforestation projects as well.

Examples

  • Remarkable efforts at reforestation in the past 150 years have increased forest cover substantially.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The combined effect of reduced water storage due to reforestation and climate change would be far worse than either effect alone.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Third, financial incentives were provided for reforestation, later for natural forest management, and then for forest preservation.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The good news is that the margin of safety can be built back by aggressive reforestation in the arc of deforestation.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Finally, reforestation is highly desirable in its own right, irrespective of the threat of climatic change.

    Academic text (1993)

  • There has been much discussion of reforestation as a means of offsetting fossil fuel CO2 emissions.

    Academic text (1993)

  • APRODIB was developing a reforestation program and exploring mechanisms for providing tax incentives to landowners to plant trees.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Since the end of the war, many thousands of young mangroves have been hand-planted by Vietnamese reforestation brigades.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Some 15,000 Hispanic migrants, working on temporary visas, replant timberland for reforestation companies in Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, and elsewhere in the South.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The government initiated a large-scale reforestation project to recover the forest that had been devastated by wildfires.

Synonyms

forestation
vsreforestation
  • Specialized
1 3.8

Planting trees to make an area into a forest

focuses specifically on restoring forests reduced or destroyed by fire or logging
re-afforestation
vsreforestation
  • UK
6.8

Planting new trees on land where a forest was cut down

is the same concept but written without a hyphen in modern usage

Antonyms

deforestation
18 4.3

The cutting down of large areas of trees that harms the land and animals

How Forested

reforestation
3 3.8
planting
34 1.0
deforestation
18 4.3

Surface Forms

reforestation singular
reforestations plural

Morphology

reforestation = reforest (transparent) = re + forest + ation

The noun is a standard and readily understandable action noun formed from the verb 'reforest'.

Etymology

The word reforestation has re- meaning 'again' and forest, so it simply means 'making a forest again'. So, reforestation is planting trees to bring a forest back after it has been cut or burned.